Stained Glass Window at Corio Geelong Grammar School All Saints' Anglican Chapel

Biddlecombe Avenue, Corio, GREATER GEELONG CITY

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Corio Geelong Grammar School Lindon (2)

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  • Stained Glass Window at Corio Geelong Grammar School All Saints' Anglican Chapel - Vic. War Heritage Inventory
  • Stained Glass Window at Corio Geelong Grammar School All Saints' Anglican Chapel - Vic. War Heritage Inventory
  • Stained Glass Window at Corio Geelong Grammar School All Saints' Anglican Chapel - Vic. War Heritage Inventory
  • Stained Glass Window at Corio Geelong Grammar School All Saints' Anglican Chapel - Vic. War Heritage Inventory
  • Stained Glass Window at Corio Geelong Grammar School All Saints' Anglican Chapel - Vic. War Heritage Inventory
  • Stained Glass Window at Corio Geelong Grammar School All Saints' Anglican Chapel - Vic. War Heritage Inventory
  • Stained Glass Window at Corio Geelong Grammar School All Saints' Anglican Chapel - Vic. War Heritage Inventory
  • Stained Glass Window at Corio Geelong Grammar School All Saints' Anglican Chapel - Vic. War Heritage Inventory
  • Stained Glass Window at Corio Geelong Grammar School All Saints' Anglican Chapel - Vic. War Heritage Inventory
  • Stained Glass Window at Corio Geelong Grammar School All Saints' Anglican Chapel - Vic. War Heritage Inventory
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  • Memorial Window References & Acknowledgements

    Stained Glass Window at Corio Geelong Grammar School All Saints' Anglican Chapel - Memorial Window References & Acknowledgements

    AWM Roll of Honour; NAA: B883, VX63315; James Affleck, Geelong Grammarians at World War Two, 2002, p.50; http://www.awm.gov.au/units/unit_10107.asp

    Memorial Window Subject

    Stained Glass Window at Corio Geelong Grammar School All Saints' Anglican Chapel - Memorial Window Subject

    Singapore

    Memorial Window Text

    Stained Glass Window at Corio Geelong Grammar School All Saints' Anglican Chapel - Memorial Window Text

    In Him was life and the life was the light of men John Ch. LV.4

    Memorial Window Inscription

    Stained Glass Window at Corio Geelong Grammar School All Saints' Anglican Chapel - Memorial Window Inscription

    Killed on Active Service 10th February 1942 Captain George Leonard Lindon 2-13th A.G.H. A.I.F.

    Memorial Window Description & History

    Stained Glass Window at Corio Geelong Grammar School All Saints' Anglican Chapel - Memorial Window Description & History

    Unlike the other three windows in the west wall, the Singapore window was intended as a memorial to one individual, George Leonard Lindon, and to some extent his story parallels that of Singapore and its fall in 1942. The image closest to the top is the AIF badge and at the base is the colour patch of the 2-13 Australian General Hospital.

    George Leonard Lindon attended Trinity College while undertaking a medical degree at the University of Melbourne. He had been a Resident for nine months at Melbourne's Alfred Hospital when he enlisted in the AIF in September 1941. He was initially posted to the 4 Army General Hospital (then based at Tobruk), but was transferred to 2-13 AGH and left Melbourne in January 1942. t The 2-13 AGH had set up in Singapore on 15 September 1941, but relocated to Malaya in November. Close to the front line, the hospital was treating large numbers of patients, effectively acting as a clearing aid station; increasingly difficult conditions were made worse by the evacuation of nurses and the hospital suffered its own casualties. Captain Lindon joined this unit just prior to its retreat to Singapore. On 8 February he was detached to form a Regimental Aid Post near the front and was killed on 10 February 1942, just a few days before the fall of Singapore. He was buried at Kranji War Cemetery, Singapore.

    Heritage Study and Grading

    Heritage Study and Grading

    Vic War Heritage Inventory - Stained Glass Memorial Windows Study

    Author: Bronwyn Hughes
    Year: 2013
    Grading: Local

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